Line #14 Creator/DylanThomas


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:"In my craft or sullen art/Exercised in the still night/When only the moon rages/And the lovers lie abed/With all their griefs in their arms, I labour by singing light..."]]
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4	->''Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means, \
5	Time held me green and dying \
6	Though I sang in my chains like the sea.''
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8	Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a [[UsefulNotes/{{Wales}} Welsh]] {{poet\|ry}}. His {{poetry}} is notable for its tendency towards obscurity, its gothic, surreal tone and its rhythmic, infectious cadence. His most famous poem is the [[TropeNamers Trope Namer]] for DoNotGoGentle.
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10	!! His books available today include...
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12	* ''Collected Poems'': ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
13	** ''Literature/DoNotGoGentleIntoThatGoodNight'': Thomas's most famous poem, written as his father slowly died of illness.
14	* ''[[{{Shout Out}} A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog]]'': Following the model of Creator/JamesJoyce's ''Literature/{{Dubliners}}'' with its title an obvious homage to Joyce's ''Literature/APortraitOfTheArtistAsAYoungMan'' (although Thomas insisted he never read a word of Joyce), this auto{{biograph\|y}}ical collection of {{short stor\|y}}ies tracks an AuthorAvatar as he navigates the turmoil of adolescence and disappointment.
15	* ''Quite Early One Morning'': A posthumous collection of fictions, interviews and criticisms. Includes what is arguably his greatest story, "A Child's Christmas in Wales".
16	* ''Theatre/UnderMilkWood'': A humorous play for voices which follows the thoughts and actions of the inhabitants of a coastal Welsh village.
17	* ''Adventures in the Skin Trade'': A slightly surreal novella about a young man trying to become a publisher in Cardiff.
18	* ''Rebecca's Daughters'': A radio play about the eponymous criminal group.
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20	!! His work gives examples of the following tropes...
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22	* TheAlcoholic: A case of WriteWhatYouKnow, as he was a ''very'' heavy drinker. The exact circumstances of his death in New York at the age of 39 are unclear [[note]] his last words, uttered just before he slipped into a coma following a drinking session in Greenwich Village's White Horse Tavern, were reportedly "I've had 18 straight whiskies ... I think that's the record" [[/note]] -- but if alcohol consumption wasn't the primary cause, it was a huge contributing factor.
23	* DeathOfAChild: A handful of his poems ("A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London" and "The Conversation of Prayer", to name a couple) deal with dead children.
24	* GrowingUpSucks: "Fern Hill" is about how his memories of a happy summer at the title farm have been spoiled by an adult's awareness that time was going to take it all away.
25	* ReligiousHorror: Much of his poetry is grotesque, an effect he achieved by juxtaposing religious imagery with descriptions of filth and decay.
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